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Don't be blinded by data scarcity on biodiversity, insurers say
10 July 2024Panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's EMEA 2024 conference in June broke down the challenges involved in measuring biodiversity risk, sounded notes of optimism for the future, and urged for a new valuation for nature
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Hydrogen is developing quickly, but are insurers brave enough to take a punt?
08 July 2024The US government is pouring cash into newer renewables technologies in an effort to get them to scale and attract private investment
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Benelux insurers praise outsourcing partners
05 July 2024As Benelux CIOs generally got better news in 2023 and 2022, back-slapping for mandate managers seemed the order of the day
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Election day: How ballot box results are transforming a CIO's job
04 July 2024As geopolitics is "literally shaping markets day-in and day-out", and UK and French electors choose their next governments, Insurance Asset Risk analyses what geopolitical instability might mean for CIOs
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Insurers fighting an "arms race" over private credit, Phoenix's CIO says
01 July 2024Hiscox and Just Group CIOs tell the Insurance Asset Risk EMEA 2024 conference why it is important to keep external asset managers on their toes, particularly when it comes to private assets
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COTW - Round the World in SFCRs: Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia
28 June 2024SFCRs from southern Europe's insurers contained a mix of epic investment performance, and conservative approaches in 2023
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IAR EMEA 24 - Matching adjustment reform, big bang or damp squib?
27 June 2024At Insurance Asset Risk's recent EMEA 2024 conference in London, panellists sat down to discuss some of the main regulatory issues facing insurers this year from reforms to Solvency UK to the ever-proliferating amount of ESG regulation
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A Lasting legacy - How Medvida is still helping Spanish lifers shed unwanted backbooks
26 June 2024Life consolidation and backbook deals may have hit hurdles in Germany, but in Spain Antonio Trueba, CEO of consolidator Medvida Partners paints a different picture
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IAR EMEA 24: Buckle in for inflation and geopolitical bumpiness
24 June 2024Conference panellists discussed the persistence of inflation and the power of political risk to surprise
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COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king
21 June 2024High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year
- APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community
- IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing
- AIG to increase private assets allocation to boost slowing investment income
- Blackstone-backed Ki syndicate at Lloyd's fires for alternatives manager
- Japan Post Insurance cedes asset risk in $3.7bn Bermuda reinsurance deal
- 'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change
- IAR Real Assets: Market volatility has stunted great start to 2025 for real estate, Phoenix Group says
- IAR Real Assets: Use private market's lack of sentiment to advantage, Munich Re says
- IAR Real Assets: Solvency UK reforms need time to bed-in, ABI says
- Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies